Chalet Motel Whitefish

This is a really weird feeling, leaving home for a five month adventure. We do a lot of traveling, but never one of this length. It's required an humongous amount of planning and while we've tried to think of all contingencies, we know that's not even possible.
And that's OK--part of the seat-of-your-pants traveling we're best at.
We ...

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Inna Lazarev,
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... supplies in St Mary. However, the fun part was beginning when we started up the Going-to-the-Sun-Road which was built in 1932 and was set to close for the season the next day (in fact, due to snow the next day, we were one of the last to complete the run this year). The road offers great views to those that are unafraid of heights and the summit is at Logan Pass the continental divide at 2,025 metres (6,646 feet).

After a ...

Kalispell is actually starting to feel like home away from home! The mechanic ran into delays, truck won't be ready till Wednesday, so we are catching up with laundry, grocery shopping, haircuts, and resting. Wondering what we'll find when we open up the trailer after this long week. Need to get re-organized before we head west again.

... us a loaner, we will leave the camper at the dealership for the week and we will head towards Canada in this red Corolla. Drive through Banff and Jasper? Try to find V's distant cousin that we've been wanting to meet for over 25 years? Looking on the map, they live waaayy up north in British Columbia. What the heck! Maybe we'll just go for it!

... made me feel safe!

Well, once we set up our tent we went off on a hike to Avalanche Lake. The hike was about 2 miles in each direction, through cedar forest that had numerous alpine streams coming down the mountains that could be seen through the canopy. We had been told the trail was….just ok, but the real surprise was at the end.

As we cleared the trees at the end of the trail we were staring at the most gorgeous lake and mountain scene possible. No really, it ...

... hiking in the Many Glacier area. Went to Redrock Falls. It was a great short hike -- sunny, flowers blooming, warmed up by mid-afternoon. Took a bunch of pictures, naturally.

Then I drove to the St. Mary entrance and drove the 14 miles that the Going To The Sun Road is open from the east side. At one of the turnouts, a couple came up to talk ...

... before i even started to reach for the camera. to be honest, once we got back to the main road, i don't remember too much about this segment of the ride. there was a big lake, lots of hills, and lots of wind in our face. we all had our heads down and were just pedaling as hard as we could. sometimes when conditions get hard, the brain tunes out and the body knows how to power through... also, someone made an interesting observation: you can tell how much you were enjoying the ...

... and started to make a list of food items we had in the RV for the Canadian customs tomorrow. While uploading pics I made pasta with most of our onions - we cannot take any into Canada - mushrooms, and pepperoni. I cooked it for several hours to give it a better taste. Poor Pooh almost went nuts just before it was done since she was so hungry. After lunch we went on our light excursion to East Glacier. For the second ...

... compartment there, they're stirring too. But Andrew hasn't heard a thing. Get up Andrew! Let's gather all our things together now. He rubs his eyes, it isn't daylight yet. We cannot miss our stop! So come on down the ladder now. He stumbles down, there is no room to walk, the bed's against the sink, sit here and wash your face. The bed blocks the doorway too. We manage though, we stuff our stuff into our bags and stack them in the hall. Daylight ...